drollery
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The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
At his most winning despite his character’s lethal nature, Gyllenhaal keeps up the one-liners and drollery.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
Lapine’s book is marvelously inventive, full of elbow-nudging drollery and melancholy rumination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
"Not a bit of it!" broke in Hunter, who remarked nothing of the roguish drollery of old Peter's eye, nor even suspected that the speech was made in mockery.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
Mencken–esque drolleries that serve nobody but their own egos.
From Time ● Sep. 21, 2011
It is notable for its drolleries of language and image, occasional descents into outright corniness and flat-footed insistence on randomness, coincidence or uninflected information as the artist’s main compositional options.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010
While Mr. Skinner 'dominated the proceedings, Dapple was responsible for the most engaging drolleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
His whims, his spirit, his drolleries alike have made him an ideal figure of the eccentric and high talented artist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drolleries are very funny, and the other illuminations very instructive and curious.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley
